Posted on 07/02/2020 1:33:40 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
"Lift Ev'ry Voice And Sing," commonly known as the Black national anthem, is expected to be performed live or played before every Week 1 NFL game, and the NFL is also considering a variety of other measures to recognize victims of police brutality during the upcoming season, a source familiar with the league's discussions told The Undefeated on Thursday.
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Whites are not allowed in the Negro Football Leagues.
The NFL has forgotten who really pays their bills. What is the old saying? “Dance with the one what brung you to the dance.” Most BLM, Inc. supporters do not belong to that group.
All of the white players should have to go out on the field wearing shackles for the shame of their race and the crimes of the past.
There will be some sort of “Pledge...” recited at public schools for BLM. Guaranteed.
Oh, I’m sure the usual suspects literally have the shakes right now at sports withdrawl. Sports addicts have an unshakable bond, similar to what Democrats share with their ‘voters’. Nothing can break that bond.
You have to laugh at the NFL threads here, always with the same disclaimer about not disparaging the NFL, because it’s an escape. Yeah.
But it was first sung at a celebration of Abraham Lincoln. Isn’t he a racist now?
Aaaaaaaaaand more market share is lost.
I’d like to see the NFL Football picks thread on this site go away. FreeRepublic stands for a Free Republic, it does not kneel in subjection to a bunch of black thugs that wish to destroy our way of life.
Any cops who pulls that duty willingly is disrespecting himself.
The NFL shows themselves to be only interested in topping the last horrible idea in how to “deal with the Kneel!”
I get it. I have already left the fold. I can’t be any angrier at the stupid leadership, owners and players who have screwed up the sport.
I will not come back, even if they start standing. I am done.
Not watching Negro Felon’s League, ever.
Fine, as long as they play the White National Anthem, “Sweet Home Alabama” in week 2!
Politics of pandering aside, here are the lyrics. It was written at the end of the 19th century when former slaves were still plentiful and seems to be a call for them and their children to move past that, to move into a better future. Hard to find fault with the words here.
Lift ev’ry voice and sing,
‘Til earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the list’ning skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on ’til victory is won.
Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chastening rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
‘Til now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who has by Thy might
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee,
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee;
Shadowed beneath Thy hand,
May we forever stand,
True to our God,
True to our native land.
Just dig a trench, plop the NFL down in it, and cover it up with dirt.
RIP NFL. You were good while you lasted.
Play this on the video jumbotrons. I guarantee no one will be kneeling.
It’s over 100 years old and was known as the Negro National Anthem. It’s an uplifting hymn.
Last stanza:
God of our weary years
God of our silent tears
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way
Thou who has by Thy might
Led us into the light
Keep us forever in the path, we pray
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee
Shadowed beneath Thy hand
May we forever stand
True to our God
True to our native land
I didn’t know that there was a shortage of black nations that needed to be addressed. Somebody let Africa know.
It does beat “This Land Is Your Land”, I’ll give it that.
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